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Swordfish: Action

Passport shows a Finnish hacker with the name Axl Torvald: Possible reference to Linus Torvalds. Passport shows movie Torvald is from Helsinki Finland the place Linus was born, but is socially Swedish. Birth date on passport appears to be Dec 31, 1964, a slight transmutation of Linus' birthday, Dec 28, 1969 - where a 4 and 9 look alike and a 3 day difference exists.
There is a second passport where the last name is Torvalds, but this one states he is from Germany stating he was born November 1, 1971.

Axl is an opportunist: when detained at airport, he tailgates with another person through a usually locked door, and gains access to a key access elevator that had just arrived.
Police officer/FBI Agent claims Axl is "World's Number One Hacker". (Is he really referring to Linus?)

Method shown for getting a person to leave their post: Phone call to person from their boss to a phone at a different location that forces the person to move to the new location, and when they pickup they are asked to hold. Meanwhile, caller has opportunity to take action.

"Breaking 128 bit key DES DoD laptop" scene: First laptop screen includes fake "code" on the left with many assignments, and tests, and the right contains invalid IP addresses where at least one of the "octet" exceed 255 in each.
Next laptop screen seems to show same display as previous.
Next screen offers message about encryption key and then flashes "ENCRYPTED ACCESS KEY" and then in all red "ACCESS DENIED" (flashing)
Next screen has two halves, a left and right pane. The left side has what appear to be some common and not-so-common *NIX user groups:

Next Screen "ACCESS DENIED" large red letters again... they must have something more advanced than vt320.... ;-)
Next screen shot: Back to redisplay above fake dir listing but it starts from the 3rd row with "DATABASE" and the left pane is chopped.
Next screen shot, more of the above screen is painted, but vertical and horizontal chopping permit less viewing than the above.
Another, closer, more restricted display of the items above in a quick refresh.
"ACCESS KEY" then "ACCESS DENIED"
Number appear in a "Matrix-like" display (think opening to Matrix with "call trace"):

22 4567524
24 4596878

With the obvious double meaning, the protagonist's ex is hooked up with a guy who does finances/backs/distros porn films. This in itself is not remarkable, but the name of the film company is: "Backdoor Films"

"Going to Caltech to get old code" scene: Protagonist claims he has his original code for "the worm he has been using for year" at Caltech, stored on a PDP-10 that they keep around for historical purposes.

"Downloaded the Worm" scene with screen shot:
(There were graphics on the screen and a rotating 3d object in the center, separating the text to two sides.

(Some of the above was found in next screen)
(Some of these numbers were fuzzy. Doing the best I can with what I have.)
(If you add the totals for each account and compare to the bottom, you see a rounding difference between 9,501,036,814.35 and 9,501,036,814.36

"Rubber hose crypto analysis" is applied to Halle Berry's character to try to aid in recovery of access to the passphrase to unlock program that is hiding money. (Threats to another person that the owner of the code care about enough to give up the code.)

They have another screen with what amounts to fake trace/ping information, but over that screen pops up some "code":

At the end of the film, Halle Berry's character is withdrawing money from the account in Monte Carlo.
Account number spoken: 356127G
Password: "swordfish" (However, we don't see case, or munging of password like before with "SRDFSH4" as we don't see the screen.)

In the closing credits, we see this in the scrolling text:

final password: vernam

Very likely, one of the passwords used on their website hype the movie thingy. If you skip to the end of the credits, you can find it just before the end title of the movie "S W O R D F I S H" is displayed in the center.)

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